There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

I don’t measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can’t because I’ll just end up crushed.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

I think that’s why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven’t given people everything.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

I do love the films I’ve done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we’re trying to make people laugh and I’m very proud of that.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt’s time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it’s different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.

I’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

Americans never quit.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.